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Title: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: NT2C on August 02, 2021, 10:22:44 PM
What do you want us to wipe from your computer?
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: RoneKiln on August 02, 2021, 10:31:06 PM
Quote from: NT2C on August 02, 2021, 10:22:44 PM
What do you want us to wipe from your computer?

Scans of my passport and other similar personal data someone could use for identity theft before the computer is sold and the money goes to my loved ones.

Seriously, I cannot think of anything embarrassing or creepy on my computer. I'm pretty boring that way.

Don't worry about wiping your computer though. We'd likely just drop thermite on all the servers. Nobody stocks enough bleach to scrub ourselves clean if we tried manually wiping them.  :eek1:  :greenguy:
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: NT2C on August 02, 2021, 11:35:32 PM
Quote from: RoneKiln on August 02, 2021, 10:31:06 PM
Quote from: NT2C on August 02, 2021, 10:22:44 PM
What do you want us to wipe from your computer?

Scans of my passport and other similar personal data someone could use for identity theft before the computer is sold and the money goes to my loved ones.

Seriously, I cannot think of anything embarrassing or creepy on my computer. I'm pretty boring that way.

Don't worry about wiping your computer though. We'd likely just drop thermite on all the servers. Nobody stocks enough bleach to scrub ourselves clean if we tried manually wiping them.  :eek1:  :greenguy:
No worries.  There's two different anti-tamper systems on my PC that will wipe the drives like the mother of all EMP blasts.  Degaussing coils are fun to build!  :awesome:
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: Lambykins on August 03, 2021, 07:04:01 AM
Quote from: NT2C on August 02, 2021, 10:22:44 PM
What do you want us to wipe from your computer?
Not a damn thing.
Browse around in there and be entertained!
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: Barr on August 03, 2021, 07:14:46 AM
Quote from: Lambykins on August 03, 2021, 07:04:01 AM
Quote from: NT2C on August 02, 2021, 10:22:44 PM
What do you want us to wipe from your computer?
Not a damn thing.
Browse around in there and be entertained!

This worries me.
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: sheddi on August 03, 2021, 07:59:03 AM
Quote from: NT2C on August 02, 2021, 10:22:44 PM
What do you want us to wipe from your computer?
The hidden folder named "Tax returns 1990-1999"  :smiley_washing:
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: flybynight on August 03, 2021, 09:26:22 AM
The one marked  skynet_aware/launch exe.
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: Lambykins on August 03, 2021, 11:25:10 AM
Quote from: Barr on August 03, 2021, 07:14:46 AM
Quote from: Lambykins on August 03, 2021, 07:04:01 AM
Quote from: NT2C on August 02, 2021, 10:22:44 PM
What do you want us to wipe from your computer?
Not a damn thing.
Browse around in there and be entertained!

This worries me.
It should. :smiley_devil:
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: NT2C on August 03, 2021, 08:12:09 PM
Quote from: Lambykins on August 03, 2021, 11:25:10 AM
Quote from: Barr on August 03, 2021, 07:14:46 AM
Quote from: Lambykins on August 03, 2021, 07:04:01 AM
Quote from: NT2C on August 02, 2021, 10:22:44 PM
What do you want us to wipe from your computer?
Not a damn thing.
Browse around in there and be entertained!

This worries me.
It should. :smiley_devil:
Maybe we could auction it off to pay the bar bill at the wake?
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: boskone on August 03, 2021, 08:24:21 PM
Quote from: NT2C on August 03, 2021, 08:12:09 PM
Quote from: Lambykins on August 03, 2021, 11:25:10 AM
Quote from: Barr on August 03, 2021, 07:14:46 AM
Quote from: Lambykins on August 03, 2021, 07:04:01 AM
Quote from: NT2C on August 02, 2021, 10:22:44 PM
What do you want us to wipe from your computer?
Not a damn thing.
Browse around in there and be entertained!

This worries me.
It should. :smiley_devil:
Maybe we could auction it off to pay the bar bill at the wake?
Twice.  Once for who gets to see it first...the second time for who doesn't have to see it at all.
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: RoneKiln on August 03, 2021, 09:14:28 PM
Quote from: boskone on August 03, 2021, 08:24:21 PM
Quote from: NT2C on August 03, 2021, 08:12:09 PM
Quote from: Lambykins on August 03, 2021, 11:25:10 AM
Quote from: Barr on August 03, 2021, 07:14:46 AM
Quote from: Lambykins on August 03, 2021, 07:04:01 AM
Quote from: NT2C on August 02, 2021, 10:22:44 PM
What do you want us to wipe from your computer?
Not a damn thing.
Browse around in there and be entertained!

This worries me.
It should. :smiley_devil:
Maybe we could auction it off to pay the bar bill at the wake?
Twice.  Once for who gets to see it first...the second time for who doesn't have to see it at all.

Sounds like I won't have needed to use the thermite on NT2Cs hardware, so I'll have more than enough left over to spare us from Lamby.
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: SCBrian on August 04, 2021, 03:09:59 PM
Quote from: NT2C on August 02, 2021, 11:35:32 PM
Degaussing coils are fun to build!  :awesome:

As someone who's penciled around with this, I wanna see some architecture and notes! 
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: NT2C on August 04, 2021, 04:36:06 PM
Quote from: SCBrian on August 04, 2021, 03:09:59 PM
Quote from: NT2C on August 02, 2021, 11:35:32 PM
Degaussing coils are fun to build!  :awesome:

As someone who's penciled around with this, I wanna see some architecture and notes!
Oh no you don't...  Not gonna make it that easy for someone to figure out how to bypass the system.  :smiley_nah:
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: boskone on August 04, 2021, 06:22:42 PM
I just encrypt everything, then put anything important in an encrypted container.  If a nation-state actor wants the data they'd be able to get it elsewhere anyway, so encryption'll handily deter any lesser thieves.

I mean, we're all still vulnerable to the $5 wrench bypass (https://xkcd.com/538/).
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: NT2C on August 04, 2021, 07:00:54 PM
Quote from: boskone on August 04, 2021, 06:22:42 PM
I mean, we're all still vulnerable to the $5 wrench bypass (https://xkcd.com/538/).
Well, the premise here is that you're dead so...
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: boskone on August 04, 2021, 11:05:07 PM
Quote from: NT2C on August 04, 2021, 07:00:54 PM
Quote from: boskone on August 04, 2021, 06:22:42 PM
I mean, we're all still vulnerable to the $5 wrench bypass (https://xkcd.com/538/).
Well, the premise here is that you're dead so...
Then the encryption's sufficient.  :D
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: LowKey on February 19, 2022, 01:10:44 AM
When I was working in Iraq we had a rule, if someone bought the farm their computer got a full wipe before it was sent home to next of kin.

Wives, children, and parents didn't need to be seeing girlie pictures.
Or Hubby see beefcake.

Really, anything you want others to have should be on an external drive clearly marked and labeled (obviously this is regarding personal systems, work/research related is a different critter entirely).
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: NapalmMan67 on February 21, 2022, 03:51:36 PM
Just my fingerprints from the keyboard.  The browsing history get's deleted regularly and could plausibly be anyone else's, should someone have the need view anything that remains.

I don't store anything personal or incriminating on mine, so.
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: Raptor on February 21, 2022, 04:12:28 PM
Quote from: boskone on August 04, 2021, 11:05:07 PM
Quote from: NT2C on August 04, 2021, 07:00:54 PM
Quote from: boskone on August 04, 2021, 06:22:42 PM
I mean, we're all still vulnerable to the $5 wrench bypass (https://xkcd.com/538/).
Well, the premise here is that you're dead so...
Then the encryption's sufficient.  :D

The $5 wrench and drugs are over kill...
The living would get cheater's justice...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKJIMoyPqNI

As for mine ... good luck with getting the data I use one of the RSA random number generator key fobs which generates a new key fob code every 2 minutes.
Title: Re: We beat the zed but you bought the farm...
Post by: flybynight on February 21, 2022, 04:25:43 PM
In the end. It always comes back to

https://youtu.be/uhfPyreR_sE